JOSEPH E. ALDY is Teresa and John Heinz Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. MOTOY KUNO-LEWIS is formerly Project Manager at the Global Climate Policy Project at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. DUSTIN TINGLEY is Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. They are the authors of the forthcoming research paper “How Washington Can Lead the Global Energy Race,” from which this essay is adapted.